List of Famous people who born in 1979

Dharmendra Yadav is an Indian politician. He was a Member of Parliament in the 16th Lok Sabha from Badaun constituency, in Uttar Pradesh. He is a member of the Samajwadi Party.

Nesrin Şamdereli is a Turkish-German screenwriter of Zaza origin and film director. She directed for the first time the film adaptation of her screenplay for Delicious (2004).

Anthony Richard Denman is an American actor.

Jacob Wayne Young is an American actor and singer. He is perhaps best known for his role as JR Chandler on the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children and Rick Forrester on CBS's The Bold and the Beautiful. He was the second actor to portray Lucky Spencer on ABC's General Hospital.

Rúaidhrí Conroy is an Irish actor. He is the son of actor Brendan Conroy. One of his first castings was as Tito in the film Into the West, for which he won a Young Artist Award in the Outstanding Youth Actors in a Family Foreign Film category. In 1998, Conroy received the Theatre World Award for his performance in Martin McDonagh's play, The Cripple of Inishmaan.

Ihar Viktaravich Makarau, also commonly known by the Russian spelling Igor Viktorovich Makarov, is a Belarusian judoka. He won the gold medal in the half-heavyweight (100 kg) division at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Axelle Carolyn is a Belgian filmmaker and former actress and journalist.

Ruby Wong Cheuk-ling is a Hong Kong actress and former model.

Valeria Solarino is an Italian actress, born in Venezuela.